Monographs and Edited Books
Hindi Publishing in Colonial Lucknow. Gender, Genre and Visuality in the Creation of a Literary Canon.
New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2018.
Women and Girls in the Hindi Public Sphere: Periodical Literature in Colonial North India.
New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2012.
(Co-editor with Laura Brueck, Charu Gupta and Hans Harder) Literary Sentiments in the Vernacular. Gender and Genre in Modern South Asia. London: Routledge, 2022.
(editor). Nationalism in the Vernacular. Hindi, Urdu and the Literature of Indian Freedom.
New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2010.
Articles in Journals and Book Chapters (selection)
“International by default? Global Citizenship Education in the Language Classroom.” In Curriculum Design and Praxis in Language Teaching. A Globally Informed Approach. Eds Fernanda Carra-Salsberg, Maria Figueredo and Mihyon Jeon, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022.
“Journeying in the Vernacular: Pilgrimage, Tourism and Nationalism in Hindi Travelogues.” In Nation, Nationalism and the Public Sphere. Religious Politics in India. Eds. Avishek Ray and Ishita Bannerjee, Sage Publications, 2020.
"Gendered Lives in Vernacular Fiction: Unconventional Family Constellations in Hindi Short Stories of the Early 1940s." Indian Economic and Social History Review 56.1, 2019.
“Teaching About the 1947 Partition of British India. Literature and Oral History.” Education about Asia 23.3, 2018.
“Cumin, Capsules, and Colonialism: “Real” and “Imagined” Medical Encounters in the Hindi literary sphere.” Asian Medicine: Journal of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Asian Medicine 13.1-2, 2018.
Book Review: "From the Village into the World: Premchand (Studies) in World Literature and Translation Studies Contexts". Asaduddin, M. (ed.). Premchand in World Languages. Translation, Reception and Cinematic Representations. International Institute for Asian Studies Newsletter, 2018.
Book Review: "Defining the Indefinable: Delimiting Hindi" by Kuczkiewicz-Fras, Agnieszka, (ed.). South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 41.3, 2018.
“’Found’ in Translation: Multilingual Scholars, Vernacular Archives and Postcolonial Studies.” Review Article of Of Gardens and Graves. Kashmir, Poetry, Politics by Suvir Kaul (Duke UP, 2017); Spark of Light. Short Stories by Women Writers of Odisha, Edited by Valerie Henitiuk and Supriya Kar (Athabasca UP, 2016); Bombay Modern: Arun Kolatkar and Bilingual Literary Culture by Anjali Nerlekar (Northwestern UP, 2016). Canadian Review of Comparative Literature 44.4, 2017.
“Nationalizing the Consumption of Tea for the Hindi Reader: The Indian Tea Market Expansion Board’s Advertisement Campaign”. Modern Asian Studies 51.6, 2017.
“International Feminism from an Asian Centre: The All-Asian Women’s Conference (Lahore, 1931) in Light of Transnational Feminist History”. Journal of Women’s History 29.3 (Autumn), 2017.
“Women and the nationalization of literature: Text and image as parallel narratives with multiplied meaning in a Hindi periodical (1927 - 1941)”. Gender and History 29.1 (April), 2017.
“The Hindi-Urdu heritage language stream: innovative pedagogy and institutional challenges”. A Handbook on Heritage Language Education: From Innovation to Program Building. Eds. Olga Kagan, Maria Carreira, Claire Chik. Routledge, 2017.
“Hindi, Urdu and Hindustani on the Air: Colonial Debates over Radio Broadcasting in the United Provinces”. South Asia Research 36.1 (February), 2016.
Book review: “English Heart, Hindi Heartland. The Political Life of Literature in India” by Rashmi Sadana. Journal of Asian Studies 73.3 (August), 2014.
Book review: “Tracing the Boundaries between Hindi and Urdu. Lost and Added in Translation between 20th Century Short Stories” by Christine Everaert. Annual of Urdu Studies 29, 2014.
"Fallen Through the Nationalist and Feminist Grids of Analysis: Political Campaigning of Indian Women Against Indentured Labor Emigration." Indian Journal of Gender Studies 21.1. (February), 2014 .
"At the Margins of Empire: Feminist Configurations of Burmese Society in the Hindi Public (1917-1920)." Journal of Asian Studies 71.4 (November), 2012.
“Punkt, Punkt, Komma, Strich – Wer bin ich?” in Heimat in der Fremde. Band 2 (Commentary on Biographies of Second-Generation Indian Immigrants Living in Germany). Heidelberg: Draupadi Verlag, 2012.
“Civilizing Sisters: Writings on how to save women, men, society and the nation.” From Improvement to Development. ‘Civilizing Missions’ in Colonial and Post-colonial South Asia. Eds. Carey Watt and Michael Mann. London and New York: Anthem Press, 2011.
"I got the point across and that is what counts.” Transcultural versus (?) linguistic competence in language teaching." Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages 9.1., 2011.
“The Links of Our Chains” [English translation of the Hindi feminist essay by Mahadevi Varma]. Mahadevi Varma. Essays on Women, Culture, and Nation. Ed. Anita Anantharam. Delhi: Zubaan Press; New York: Cambria Press, 2010.
"Out of Place in Lindenstrasse: On the Representation of Ethnicity in a German Soap Opera." South Asian Popular Culture 6.2, 2008.
“The touchstone of a nation’s greatness is the status of its women” – Responses to colonial discourses on Indian womanhood.” South Asia Research 28.1, 2008.
“Hindi Children’s Journals and Nationalist Discourse (1910-1930).” Economic and Political Weekly 39.33, 2004.
